Word: pease
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Technically, Rififi is a masterpiece. It's no real think piece, and when men get shot with bullets like alley cats get shot with peas, nobody is offended. Director Jules Dassin has used every effect of camera and angle, and he never slows down the pace. While it's hard...
Most advanced composers see hope for new musical sounds in the field of electronics, but Baschet disagrees. "Our music is to electronic music what fresh peas are to canned peas," he says. His instruments produce a tumult of resonant echoes-in contrast to the comparatively orderly overtones of orchestral and...
* The ancient Hindu shastras, Dr. Sanyal reports, prescribed a diet of peas for widows to reduce the sex drive. If it failed in this, it might still cut down fertility.
Last week, in press and pulpit, in barroom and barbershop, in the family parlor and the public park, the British people voiced their sympathy, their shock, their approval, their disapproval, or their angry impatience at the whole affair. The circumstances were becoming familiar enough to permit a few small and...
At dinner, grace is said by either Donald or Joe, in conversational man-to-man tones: "Father, we thank Thee for this day and particularly for this food. Go with us through the further part of this night. Amen." The meal is hearty. A typical menu: fried chicken, pole beans...